As the founder and original head of product of Scuba Analytics in San Francisco, Lior Abraham provides an advanced data visualization engine for the leading tech companies. Patenting key database algorithms while he was a filesystem and distributed system engineer at Veritas and Facebook, Lior Abraham is experienced in building innovative data management applications.
Working for six years at Facebook in its early days, Mr. Abraham built the site’s first real-time news feed. In addition, he lead its first “off-site” product in conjunction with CNN, the inauguration of President Barack Obama. He also created the Scuba tool for in-house use, which remains one of Facebook’s most popular internal data applications. Mr. Abraham wrote a widely cited paper, Diving Into Data at Facebook. Earlier he worked as a file system engineer for the enterprise company Veritas, and built the database and product for the DeltaClick online marketing firm in San Francisco.
Mr. Abraham graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a BS in electrical engineering and computer systems. He won programming competitions at the school and placed highly in Association for Computing Machinery regional and World programming competition finals in every year eligible.